The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's generic ecological assessment endpoints

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 967-981

  Suter II, Glenn W ^a   Rodier, Donald J ^a   Schwenk, Scott ^b   Troyer, Michael E ^a   Tyler, Patricia L ^a   Urban, Douglas J ^c   Wellman, Marjorie C ^a   Wharton, Steven ^a  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

^c Rubenstein Sch Environ Nat Rsrc ^*

Author keywords

Ecological risk assessment; Endpoints; Problem formulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 12244275966     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030490887104     Document Type: Review

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